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The All-in-One Fake API for developers.

Introducing FooApi

I am excited to announce a personal project I’ve been working on: fooapi.com. The service isn’t 100% complete yet—some features are still in development—but I plan to share progress and updates with each new release. This project began with the idea of creating a single platform to access data on various topics through different methods. The platform provides realistic dummy data across several categories, which you can use to mock your projects and ideas.

You can find all the details in fooapi.com/docs

How to use it?

Currently there are two ways to fetch the data:

  1. REST endpoints
  2. GraphQL queries
  3. (Would you like gRPC?)

If you go to fooapi.com/playground you can practice and test your queries

Some useful examples

Here are some practical examples of how to use FooApi.

1) Do you want to create simple placeholder images? easy:

fooapi.com/imgmaker/700/500/ff0000/000000/foooo

Image Endpoint

With this endpoint, you can customize dimensions (width and height), background color, font color (Hex format), and add a custom message.

/imgmaker/:width/:height/:bg/:fn/:text
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More details in fooapi.com/docs/images

2) Do you want data to test your maps? just use:

fetch('https://fooapi.com/api/cities?limit=3')
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(data => console.log(data))
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Dummy data in maps

The data for this category is real and not artificially generated because, in a real map, we should use actual coordinates, in case you’re wondering.

3) Something simple and useful is fetch a random user:

fetch('https://fooapi.com/api/users/rand')
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(data => console.log(data))
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Response:

{
    id: "1",
    name: "John",
    lastname: "Doe",
    username: "JohnxDoe11",
    birthdate: "1990-01-01",
    age: 30,
    gender: "Male",
    phone: "+63 791 675 8914",
    email: "foo@example.com",
    country: "USA",
    height: 170,
    weight: 70
}
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4) Are you developing the next social media hit? check:

fetch('https://fooapi.com/api/comments')
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(data => console.log(data))
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Response:

[
    {
        id: "1",
        comment: "Sunshine and sci-fi sounds like a perfect combo! Enjoy getting lost in your book ",
        reactions: 0,
        postId: "1",
        user: {
            id: "50",
            name: "John",
            lastname: "Smith",
            username: "SmiJohnxD100"
        }
    },
    {
        id:"2",
        comment:"Don't forget the sunscreen!  What sci-fi are you reading?",
        reactions:1,
        postId:"1",
        user:{
             id:"2",
             name:"Akira",
             lastname:"Von Trier",
             username:"alphaVonAkirax853"
          }
    }
    "28 more elements..."
]
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Now you are free to explore the data categories.

What do you think?

I’d love to hear your feedback! Remember, you can use this service to mock your apps, designs, models, etc. If you have ideas for new data categories or features, please share them in the comments.

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Daniel Chifamba

This looks cool 😎

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Fyodor

Great project 👍 As @elpidaguy mentioned, if you have the source code available (that is if you plan to keep it open and free), would be interesting to take a look and maybe have the possibility to roll it out locally and test, for instance.

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carban

Sounds good! I built FooApi with the idea of being a free tool for developers. I'm currently finishing some features, and after that, I'll be able to share the code with the community. If you have new ideas or contributions let me know.

Thank you

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Marco Platzer

Great work, thanks for sharing!

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KamalMostafa

good idea, better if you put OAuth for some of them just to let ppl try it out.

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carban

Thank you! For now, the endpoints don't require authentication, but adding that possibility is interesting.

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Ciphernutz

Worth reading.

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Tóth Richárd

Nice project, keep it going! :)

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Kaustubh Joshi

Good Idea. Is the project open for contribution on GitHub?

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carban

Thank you! Not yet, I'm still working on some features before opening it for contributions. I'll announce updates next month

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TimRudy

This is a great service. There are so many types of data to imagine - the first one I thought of is random text/quotes/thought-of-the-day/anything like that, that can be pulled from AI. Depends how many AI requests the host would have access to. Each of them uses electricity and compute, though.